Microsoft Secure Score: Changing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint recommendation
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early December 2024→ early February 2025
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What the notice says
Microsoft’s text, safely structuredUpdated December 31, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
We’re updating the Microsoft Secure Score improvement action of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture.
As part of this change, we will gradually retire the MDE recommendation on SCID-2020, Turn on all system-level Exploit protection settings.
We are working to refine the recommendation, ensuring it aligns more accurately with recommended policies and enhances the overall security value.
When this will happen
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out early January 2025 (previously early December) and expect to complete by early February 2025 (previously early January).
How this will affect your organization
The Turn on all system-level Exploit protection settings recommendation will be completely removed from the UI, and the score will be changed in accordance.
This update is available by default.
What you need to do to prepare
This rollout will happen automatically with no admin action required. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.
What changed
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Admin impact→ Updated message, Admin impact
Updated December 31, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. We’re updating the Microsoft Secure Score improvement action of Microsoft Defender for … Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out early
December 2024January 2025 (previously early December) and expect to complete by earlyJanuary 2025.February 2025 (previously early January). How this will affect your organization: The Turn on all system-level Exploit …- Tags
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